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Validation of dementia-free status in the iranian brain imaging database using ADNI data: a transition point from
Sadegh Ghaderi1,2, Sana Mohammadi3, Farzad Fatehi3
1Department of Neuroscience and Addiction Studies, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. s_ghaderi@razi.tums.ac.ir.
Objective:
To validate the Iranian Brain Imaging Database (IBID) for dementia-free status in middle-aged to older adults (over 55 years old) by comparing dementia probability metrics with Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).
Methods:
This cross-sectional study included 41 cognitively normal participants from IBID (age > 55 years; median (IQR) = 64 (62, 68) years; females = 51.2%) and 41 age/sex-matched AD patients from ADNI (age > 55 years; median (IQR) = 69 (62, 71) years; females = 53.7%). High-resolution 3D T1-weighted MPRAGE MRI data were harmonized across Siemens 3.0 Tesla scanners, preprocessed via the AssemblyNet-AD pipeline (volBrain), and analyzed for grading scores and hippocampal-amygdalo-ventricular atrophy scores (HAVAs), along with hippocampus, amygdala, and inferior lateral ventricle atrophy scores. Non-parametric Mann-Whitney U tests were used to compare group differences, and quantile regression (25th, 50th, and 75th quantiles) model atrophy severity-dependent associations.
Results:
IBID participants exhibited minimal dementia probability (median grading score = 0.20% vs. ADNI = 99.93%; U = 84.0, p < 0.0001) and markedly lower atrophy across all regions (HAVAs: 14.76 vs. 86.41; U = 75.0, p < 0.0001), with non-overlapping interquartile ranges. Quantile regression revealed stable hippocampal contributions (q₀.₅ coefficient = 0.311, p < 0.001) and increasing group disparities at higher atrophy severities (q₀.₇₅: IBID vs. ADNI coefficient = - 11.82, p < 0.001).
Conclusion:
We provided validated dementia-free IBID neuroimaging data to distinguish normal aging from dementia-AD status.
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